70 ]\Ir. C. F. ]\I. Swviineiton on the 



1906^ it had already congregated into small flocks^ but a 

 mouth later in 1907, a late wet season, it had not yet done 

 so to any extent, but still remained in pairs which were 

 playfully chasing each other about in the forest with crackling 

 Avings. I have seen it taking a leading part in mobbing an 

 Owl [Syrnium), accompanied by Batis ei'ythrophthalma, 

 Phijllostrophus milunjensis, and other ibrest-species. 



It occurs in the Jihu (2000 ft.), where I saw one on 

 August 4th in the Kurumadzi bush, as well as in Northern 

 Melsetter, on Mount Pene, where I noted several in the 

 forest in September (6500 to 7000 feet). They are easily 

 recognisable even at a distance or in gloomy foliage by their 

 peculiar habit of flapping one wing. 



At four nests during the present season the sitting bird 

 attempted to lure me away, on three of these occasions 

 feigning a broken wing. Of one I wrote : — '' She sat till 

 touched and then, slipping off the nest, struggled along the 

 ground in capital imitation of a broken wing. I followed 

 to see what she Avould do, and whenever I lagged behind she 

 Avould get up into some low shrub and call loudly several 

 times, again, on my arrival, struggling along as before. At 

 last, having got me, as she thought, far enough away, she 

 flew up into a low tree and defied me openly. Just after- 

 wards I came across another nest of this Bulbul, containing 

 two recently-hatched young. In this case there was no 

 feigned lameness but real alarm, the female (presuii;ably) 

 keeping up a constant noise (the usual alarm-note Hyi-t}i- 

 tyi-tyi-tyi, &c.'') accompanied by the usual flapping of one 

 wing, while the male sat there stolidly or moved about with 

 the female but without uttering a note, merely keeping on 

 raising a wing.^' I have found only two nests supported 

 from below (by a fork and by DraccEna leaves respectively) ; 

 almost invariably they are slung from above. 



In the young bird the bill is deep sepia, paler at the point 

 (in the adult it is black), the feet pale grey, the gape yellow, 

 and the irides dark brown. An adult female which I secured 

 in August had the feet dark dusky grey instead of blue-grey, 

 ouite an unusual thing-. I have measured thirteen of these 



